| VERB | change | deconcentrate, decentralize, decentralise | make less central |
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| Meaning | make less central. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | decentralize, decentralise | |
| Narrower | federalize, federalise | put under the control and authority of a federal government |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Opposite | centralize, centralise, concentrate | make central |
| Spanish | descentralizarse, descentralizar | |
| Catalan | decentralitzar, descentralitzar-se, descentralitzar | |
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